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:I think the problem is that each UNIXoid operating system will use different terms. For example, on Linux your jobs are called "tasks".
== Load Average on non-*nix systems ==
Load Average is also used in the Tenex operating system developed at BBN and it's spawn, Digital Equipment Corporation's TOPS20. I was not originally used in DEC's VMS operating system for VAX and AXP based systens, but a drop-in device driver was made available to the computing community, and just about every VMS system connected to the Internet has it installed. It is often used on VMS systems to compute a threshold at which ANONYMOUS FTP service will not be allowed. It is also used in VMS Clusters to shunt a cluster-wide service to the least loaded system. The VMS Load Average driver actually computes the load for several system variables; I'd have to go back and look at the code or the documentation to find out what those variables are.
I also remember seeing the Load Average used on TOPS20 before seeing it on BSD Unix.
-HWM
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